The chapters in this book provide in- depth insight into the gender norms and contexts in which women work in the expanding informal mining sector in sub- Saharan Africa.

Collectively, the research here provides a nuanced account of women’s livelihood strategies in artisanal and small- scale mining (ASM, as its generally known) in ways that challenge images of women― as either victimized by mining or empowered by mining livelihoods, or both― that tend to dominate the growing array of donor and policy interventions in this sector. The authors come from different disciplinary traditions― anthropology, economics, political science, mining engineering, law― but all place questions of gendered power front and centre in their analyses of sociocultural, institutional, economic and political relationships, practices and arrangements within which women navigate their mining livelihoods. The physical or representational presence (and sometimes absence) of women in ASM sites is a linking theme, with the chapters exploring different dimensions of mining and gender― the gendered divisions of labour, migration, land ownership, cultural norms, and gendered authority relations― but also how ‘women’ materialize and are seen and unseen in the growing array of transnational interventions in this sector.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

About the Author

Blair Rutherford is Professor of Anthropology at Carleton University and a research associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. Among other publications, he is the author of two monographs concerning the cultural politics of farm labour in Zimbabwe.

Doris Buss is Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies. She teaches and researches in the areas of international law and human rights, sexual and gender-based violence, armed conflict and transitional justice, and the gender dimensions of resource governance.

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